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Law
Westchester County built a 600-camera plate reader network that shared 1.6 billion scans with ICE, lawsuit says
By Byron Tau and The Associated PressJune 11, 2026
A joint law enforcement operation uses a drone swarm for inspection in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, on August 26, 2025.
AI
The U.S. keeps warning about China’s surveillence tech threat—while cashing in on it: ‘I think we’ve been naive or complicit in the extreme’
By Garance Burke, Dake Kang, Byron Tau and The Associated PressOctober 29, 2025
Jeffrey Scholes
Politics
‘A bit of a shock’: Even community colleges, largely nonpartisan commuter schools, are feeling the Trump education crackdown
By Byron Tau and The Associated PressAugust 24, 2025
Two of Elon Musk’s top DOGE hires are a married couple who worked at X and lived at Twitter’s HQ with their infant child
Politics
Two of Elon Musk’s top DOGE hires are a married couple who worked at X and lived at Twitter’s HQ with their infant child
By Byron Tau, Joshua Goodman, Garance Burke, Brian Slodysko and The Associated PressApril 17, 2025
Elon Musk wields a chainsaw on stage
Politics
21 tech staffers quit from DOGE en masse, warning Elon Musk’s hires are political idealogues without the necessary skills or experience
By Brian Slodysko, Byron Tau and The Associated PressFebruary 25, 2025
Judge temporarily blocks Elon Musk plan offering incentives for federal workers to quit
Politics
Judge temporarily blocks Elon Musk plan offering incentives for federal workers to quit
By Chris Megerian, Collin Binkley, Byron Tau and The Associated PressFebruary 7, 2025
Federal workers ask whether Musk buyout deal is real or a trick as deadline approaches
Politics
Federal workers ask whether Musk buyout deal is real or a trick as deadline approaches
By Chris Megerian, Collin Binkley, Byron Tau and The Associated PressFebruary 6, 2025
DeepSeek could send sensitive user information to Chinese state-owned telecoms company, researchers warn
Tech
DeepSeek could send sensitive user information to Chinese state-owned telecoms company, researchers warn
By Byron Tau and The Associated PressFebruary 5, 2025
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Success
Mark Cuban says he has the solution to growing income inequality, and it's to reward every employee—from CEO to janitor—with company stockplaceholder alt text
By Sasha RogelbergJuly 20, 2026
Cybersecurity
OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluationplaceholder alt text
By Jeremy Kahn and Emily ForliniJuly 21, 2026
AI
Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problemplaceholder alt text
By Eva RoytburgJuly 21, 2026
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